Typically, the annual blessings are conducted at Kōkeʻe, near the Alaka‘i Plateau where, for nearly 20 years, staff from the Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery Project have worked to save the island’s native ...

Activists in St. Louis want Washington University—with its multibillion-dollar endowment—to pony up to help rebuild public ...

A major police operation is underway in Örebro, Sweden, after five people were shot at an adult education centre. Armed ...

The cruise industry was already booming in Alaska, but some locals say its continued growth is putting a strain on the environment tourists come for.

With OMV set to announce unexpectedly good flows from its Pohokura field and Genesis buying in more coal, the tide is turning back to investment in fossil fuels. Shane Jones tells Jonathan Milne that ...

A sodden community still reeling from a 63-year-old woman's death is bracing for more rain with a 58-year-old flood record at ...

Build societies, manage supermarkets, or explore zombie-infested worlds at your own pace. Technical advancements provide more ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today it has officially begun its “Phase 2” wildfire-debris removal effort, beginning with two Pasadena Unified School District campuses that were destroyed ...

By Steve Wilent, The Mountain Times It’s painful to see that so many homes and businesses were burned by wildfires in the Los Angeles area in January. People killed — 27, so far — and injured. Lives, ...

The Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines plane was alerted to the plane’s presence by air control twice, the first time at least two minutes before the deadly crash ...

Editor's note: This page reflects the news on the recovery of the plane and helicopter crash in Washington from Sunday, Feb. 2. For the latest updates on the recovery of the crash, read USA TODAY ...

The Black Hawk helicopter which collided with a passenger plane above Washington DC was training for a hypothetical evacuation of US leaders at the time, according to US officials. Three soldiers ...